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Alexander Stephan | Mershon Center for International Security Studies | the Ohio State University The Ohio State www.osu.edu Help Campus map Find people Webmail University home > people > faculty > alexander stephan Faculty Alexander Stephan Fellows and Visitors Ohio Eminent Scholar and Professor Staff Germanic Languages and Literatures Senior Fellow, Mershon Center for International Security Studies 105C Mershon Center Alexander Stephan Ohio Eminent Scholar 614.247.6068 and Professor of [email protected] Germanic Languages and Literature The Ohio State Education University Freie Universität Berlin (1966-68) M.A., University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (1969) Ph.D., Princeton University (1973) Teaching/Research Dr. Stephan’s research interests include: ● Transatlantic studies/public diplomacy (European-American relations, American culture and anti-Americanism in Europe and the developing world) ● History (security studies, Cold War, FBI and culture, Third Reich) ● Culture and area studies (migration and exile studies, cultural politics, German cultural relations with Eastern Europe, Marxist aesthetics) ● German literature in historical context Selected Publications Überwacht. Ausgebürgert. Exiliert. Schriftsteller und der Staat [Observed, Expatriated, Exiled: Writers and the State] (Aisthesis, 2007) America on My Mind. Zur Amerikanisierung der deutschen Kultur nach 1945 [America on My Mind. The Americanization of (West-)German Culture Since 1945], with Jochen Vogt (München, 2006) The Americanization of Europe: Culture, Diplomacy, and Anti-Americanism after 1945 ( Berghahn Books, 2006) Das Amerika der Autoren. Von Kafka bis 09/11 [The Authors’ America. From Kafka to 09/11], with Jochen Vogt (Fink, 2006) Americanization and Anti-Americanism. The German Encounter with American Culture After 1945 (Berghahn Books, 2005) Exile and Otherness: New Approaches to the Experience of the Nazi Refugees, Exilstudien/Exile Studies, vol. 11 (Lang, 2005) Refuge and Reality: Feuchtwanger and the European Émigrés in California, with Pól O’Dochartaigh (Rodopi, 2005) Jeans, Rock und Vietnam. Amerikanische Kultur in der DDR, with Therese Hörnigk (Theater der Zeit, 2002) Communazis: FBI Surveillance of German Emigré Writers (Yale University Press, 2000) Anna Seghers: Das siebte Kreuz. Welt und Wirkung eines Romans [Anna Seghers: The Seventh Cross. Context and Reception of a Novel] (Aufbau Taschenbuch Verlag, 1997) Im Visier des FBI. Deutsche Exilschriftsteller in den Akten amerikanischer Geheimdienste [FBI. German Exile Authors in the Files of U.S. Secret Services] (Metzler, 1995) Max Frisch (C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1983) Christa Wolf (C.H. Beck’sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1976; 2nd ed., 1979; 3rd rev. ed., 1987; 4th ed, 1991) Selected Television Documentaries Left Behind: popular culture, religiöser Fundamentalismus und Politik in den USA des George W. Bush [Left Behind: Popular Culture, Religious Fundamentalism, and Politics in the U. S. of George W. Bush] (SWF Südwest Fernsehen, 2005) Exilanten und der CIA [Exiles and the CIA] (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen/ZDF, 2002) Marlene [Dietrich] – eine FBI-Spitzel? [Marlene Dietrich – an FBI Informant?] (Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen/ZDF, 2000) Im Visier des FBI. Deutsche Autoren im US-Exil [FBI: German Exile Authors in the Files of U.S. Secret Services], with Johannes Eglau (ARD Television Documentary, 1995) Honors, Awards, and Service Fulbright Senior Specialist (2006-11) Deutsches Programm für transatlantische Begegnung, Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Technologie (2002-04) Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowships (2002-03, 1998- 99, 1994, 1988) German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) grants (2002, 1997, 1993) President’s and Provost’s Advisory Committee, The Ohio State University (2000-) National Endowment for the Humanities grants (1997, 1994, 1975) American Philosophical Society research grants (1992, 1981, 1979) Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1989-90) Listed in Who’s Who in America (since 1984), Kürschners Deutscher Gelehrten-Kalender (since 1986), Who’s Who in the World (since 1989), Who’s Who in the South and Southwest (1991-2001), P.E.N. Zentrum Deutschland: Autorenlexikon (1993, 2003), Who’s Who in American Education (since 1995), Kürschners Deutscher Literatur-Kalender (since 2000), Who’s Who in the Midwest (since 2001) Mershon Projects Public Diplomacy as a Global Phenomenon (2006) America in East Asia: Symposium on American Cultural Influences in China, Japan, and Korea, with East Asian Studies Center (2005) America on My Mind. Zur Amerikanisierung der deutschen Kultur nach 1945 [America on My Mind. The Americanization of (West-)German Culture Since 1945], with Jochen Vogt (2004) American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Latin America, with Center for Latin American Studies (2004) American Culture and Anti-Americanism in Russia, with Center for Slavic and East European Studies (2004) American Cultural and Anti-Americanism in the Middle East, with Middle East Studies Center (2004) American Culture in Europe: Americanization and Anti- Americanism after 1945 (2003) Das Amerika der Autoren. Von Kafka bis 09/11[The Authors’ America: From Kafka to 09/11], with Jochen Vogt (2003) Cultural Diplomacy and the Image of the United States Abroad (2003) Amerikanisierung der deutschen Kultur – Problemfelder und Forschungsansätze, with Jochen Vogt (2002) Americanization and Anti-Americanism: The Impact of American Culture on Germany after 1945 (2002) Jeans, Rock und Vietnam. Amerikanische Kultur in der DDR, with Therese Hörnigk (2002) © 2006-08 Mershon Center for International Security Studies 1501 Neil Ave. Columbus, OH 43201 Phone: 614.292.1681 Fax: 614.292.2407 Email: [email protected] .
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